Taking its inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution and then adding a dash of over-the-top martial arts and old school arcade fun, Kung Fu Strike features 28 stages of fast-paced combo-based fighting.

“Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise has more to offer than is immediately apparent.”
7/10 – GameSpot

About This Game

Taking its inspiration from ancient Chinese tales of revenge and retribution and then adding a dash of over-the-top martial arts and old school arcade fun, Kung Fu Strike features 28 stages of fast-paced combo-based fighting. Blend powerful punches, high kicks and perfectly timed blocks to pull off devastating combos, all thanks to a fluid combat system that turns brawling into an art form.

Key Features

Old-school beat-‘em-up arcade appeal!

Unlock items and abilities to further customize style of play.

Online leaderboards breed competition between players.

Later levels will challenge your Kung Fu on even the lowest difficulty setting.

Kung Fu Strike actually surprised me a lot. It has a fabulous fighting with pleasant graphics and animation, spectacular attacks, as in the Japanese-Chinese movies. An interesting and enjoyable combat system with lighting fast moves and super abilities which can be triggered by gaining enough rage. There are a crazy numbers of combos you can pull off which is always fun to see, and the nature of the game play makes it easy for anyone to pick up and play. However, there's a certain level of patience and stubbornness involved to beat the game. If you're one of those hardcore players that see games not as entertainment but rather as a challenge and a test of character, then this simple fighting game will abuse you just the way you like it. You may have a struggle in the later levels of the game, but co-op will make that easier for you. This is a challenging, yet simplistic and adrenaline fueling game, something to keep you entertained for hours.

-2 player Co-Op if you have a friend or a brother.-Perfect defense system that encourage you to stay on your toes at all time.-Perfect offensive system that encourage you to hit the weakpoint of your enemies with 2 different buttons on 2 different occasion. Or, as your enemy turns red to use a strong attack, you can counter-attack with one of your abilties to deal massive damage with a cool sound effect along with that.-Very fast paced game-Very good progression system: You must pay to increase your health and your gauge, you must unlock new abilities and combos, you must find new allies to use as decoys to complete your objectives. -The AI is impressive. They all attack you at once, often and fast, but because the defense system is perfect, that's not really a problem. You can still defend yourself perfectly agaisnt all of them.-The game is challenging and fun overall. -There's multiple fun extra stages.-You can go back every on stages to grind for more money to use to unlock your skills.-Very good replayability. I'm having fun fighting the same bosses or redoing the same stages that i already did over and over again.

Cons:

-Bad camera angle: sometime, the camera can be too far away or it can will go wild on you as something else or an event appear. That will mess you up. Other times, the camera will be set in an angle that will completely foreshadow your character so you cannot see since the objects that covers your character completely will not become transparent like in most games.-There's a very hard part in the game where your character become poisoned for a couple of stages. It's doable, but frustrating. You will need to perfectly plan your strategy to complete these few stages.-Very luck based game on drop rates. Sometime, enemies and the objects you break will drop food for health, other time, they don't at all and the lack of food can be the reason you lose.-Decoy cost money and you need money to unlock new move sets. Because of that, if you keep on losing, you eventually end up losing more money if you keep using decoys.-The last boss of the game with no DLC is way way way too hard on normal or hard mode.-At the end, you have to grind to unlock everything to stand a chance agaisnt the last boss(That is optional, but recommanded).

Kung Fu Strike has great potential, but it's terribly unfair and unforgiving.

Game is hard, but not extremely hard and it's quite enjoyable learning to master all moves, how to block and to evade, but eventually, at later stages, it becomes unfair and AI seems to get always the upper hand.

A typical example is when enemies start performing special attacks repeatedly (while you have to accumulate KI for special moves) and start to gangbang main character with red attacks while still knocked down from previous attacks, leaving zero chance to block/escape and leading often to a premature death.

From my point of view game has not been balanced very well and in some stages (or some bonus challenges) it leads to the frustrating sensation that you have to repeat the same stage several times, before winning for pure luck or because AI says so.

This is the biggest flaw for which I don't feel to recommend this game and it's a pity because it is great for everything else:

- game is very enjoyable to play before enemies become overpowered- graphic is beautiful, coloured and clean- there are different levels to play, each with its own style- local co-op- main character can be upgraded via new moves or items purchased- new moves are not just a cosmetic upgrade, but opens new fighting tactics- xbox controller is supported